Memory Brushes

Its a way to continue to add new blocks as well as keep inventory space manageable ! The idea is that you'd have 2-3 different brushes, the memory brush being one of them. Once you have created a block which is similar to another block, like a polished version, you can have the base material (like blackstone, andersite etc) in your offhand, and use a selection of the memory brush to place the block in this particular version. The brush remembers that you have created this block before, like the knowledge book, and can apply the different texture for you. Instead of making a stack of polished andersite, you could have a stack of andersite in the offhand that gets placed as polished andersite when using the brush.

I imagine the following controls: Right click to place block, left click to change mode. Picking a block would switch out the off hand's blocks in place of the main's brush. Shift pick-block would swap out the main hand.
This is also future proof since you can add a base material and have many versions come off it, so grimstone would have 5 settings, normal, polished, bricks, tiled, chiselled.
Other brush(es)
Biome variation : This would allow you to place a block that changes colour depending on biome, in a different biome whilst keeping the colour. Using a biome's 'key item' you could make an object like the banner patterns and put that into a slot this brush had when viewed in the inventory.

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February 22, 2021 09:35
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Quick addition since I ran out of characters (whoops).

This could open a pathway for more biome dependent items to be added, such as snowy grass that naturally generates in snowy plains, it would drop grass when broken with shears, but using a biome brush, could be placed in other places.

Additionally I had thought of a variation brush, which could have a similar feature to the other 2 brushes. You could use this brush to choose from a variation of different blocks which don't' have individual block types. So for instance if some grass blocks could generate with a flower in the top corner, but when broken are simply grass blocks, you could record that block so when placing a grass block using the variation brush, you have that as one of your options.

This allows for a more varied overworld with many different blocks but doesn't take up inventory space as no new blocks are being added. This feature could be incorporated into the memory brush, but I kept them as separate entities for simplicity's sake.
I look forward to reading any comments or ideas on how to improve this :)
Thanks for reading my idea,
~Silver

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Memory Brushes

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